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Hi all, just starting to play Shadespire more seriously and the more I play the more I realize that I lose some games just at deployment.
Haven't seen any guide about deployment anywhere, so I would love to have some general insights or tips from more experienced players.
Band or matchup especifics appreciated, thanks.
Things like trying to make a bottleneck on the boards when playing Ironjawz or deploying long boards when playing Khorne or objectives Sepulchral Guard.

Hello there,
I'm going to paint my stormcast warband from shadespire, i like the playstyle but i wanted to integrate a few conversion on the mini.
My first question to you is would you mind playing against this conversion of anghara, based on neave blacktalon, and do you think i should modify it further?
Any more sugestion?
Cheers!
Anamnesis

I have purchased the core set as well as Ironskull's Boyz and the Sepulcural Guard. I have only played a couple of games with the core set (in one sitting) with the recommended decks from the core set. I am pretty keen to buy the Chosen axes, and the Spiteclaw's Swarm, however as I am waaaay behind on getting games in, would someone out there like to give an up-to-date summary of how the different factions play, or different options of play style for the various factions... and If I am not asking too much how effective each faction is at different play styles.
If it helps to narrow if down, I am keen to play fairly aggressively, rather than to sit back and defend back board objectives, however I am basing that on no real experience what so ever.
Cheers!

So I just got Shadespire, and truth be told I think it’s one of the best board games I’ve ever played, certainly the best of those made by Games Workshop.
Unfortunatly, it had one large flaw. Khorne. So I set about to change this. With the help of some clippers, spare bits from the Kairic Acolytes set and a fair bit of glue, I kit bashed some Tzeentch Shadespire warriors.
So from left to right:
Fars’ere the Flame-Ridden: The leader of the warband, Fars’ere was born over a bonfire of dancing brimstone horrors, and it is said that his blood is as hot as the flames he was born in.
Satese the Seer: Fars’ere’s second in command, Satese is gifted with the power of prophetship, and can foretell events soon to happen. His mask hides his tortured face, for, in an attempt to stop the periodic visions, Satese blinded himself with a knife he keeps forever at his side.
The Chained One: Little is known about this ferocious warrior, but his sinister name depicts an even grimmer past.
Sar’cos’re: Raised by the Arcanite Cults, Sar’cos’re is a powerful sorcerer, and is known to eat the tongues of his enemies to learn their darkest secrets.
Dra’itras: Known as the Purple Flame, Dra’itras is a pious fanatic, and ritually carves symbols of change into his skin...and the skin of his fallen foes.
As soon as I get them painted I will post some more pictures (and hopefully a battle report). Thanks for looking!

Hi all - I'm not the event runner but I figured I'd let the community know that we've got the first monthly Shadespire tournament coming up at Bristol Independent Gaming (BIG) this weekend. Here's a link to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/197801597448627/?active_tab=about
£5 entry, 16 players total, prize support from the official GW packs including participation prizes for every player. Four best-of-threes over the course of the day. Relaxed venue and the community around here's really friendly.
Hope to see some new faces there!

I've been preparing for the Shadespire Grand Clash at Adepticon this year. Since pretty much the time Shadespire released, and Adepticon announced that they would be holding a GC. It appears they have updated the event description to detail how the tournament will be run, and its ridiculous. They outline that the event will be 4 Rounds (Assuming Swiss pairings), and after 4 Rounds the top 2 players will play a 5th for the Grand Prize.
Coming from a competitive card game background, this tournament structure devalues any intended "competitive nature" that GW insists exists in Shadespire. With the current event cap at 128 players, basic tournament math shows that after 4 rounds, you're going to end up with 8 undefeated players. Then it will cut straight to Top 2, based on breakers (Glory) to play a final round. That 5th round winner is the champion. This structure is absurd, and leaves 6 other players out of contention. They will be undefeated, which is all you can do in those 4 rounds, and still have no chance at actually winning.
Hopefully in the future GW looks at the tournament models that are in place across other games. Then arrives at something more fair, and better decides a champion. For now it seems this is what we have to deal with, but it doesn't feel great going into the tournament anymore. Maybe I'm applying too harsh of competitive standard, but that's the claim that was made by GW. That Shadespire would walk a more competitive line.
inb4: Score more Glory for better breakers! -- Glory is very poor way to decide tournament tie breakers. It's serviceable for a tiebreaker inside of a match to avoid it going to a draw. However, on a tournament level it's far too abusable to separate the difference between the quality of players in a tournament.

Hello Friends!
A group of buddies and I kept seeing people asking for a Shadespire Podcast so we decided to make one ourselves! I found out that some people here started a podcast too which is awesome!
So far we have recorded 5 episodes which will be coming out over the holidays. In our first episodes, we cover;
1 - Who we are and why you should get into Shadespire. (something to send your friends)
2 - Blood Reavers - The Dangle Bros
3 - Orks! Dice For The Dice God
4 - Sepulchral Guard (releasing in December)
5 - Tournament Report (releasing in December)
6 - Steelheart (releasing in January)
Claim The City Podcast Facebook
Claim The City Website
We are new to producing podcasts and would love your feedback and suggestions for topics! What can we do better? What do you like! What did we miss?
Also if you are doing something cool in the community are grinding out a lot of tournaments and would like to be a guest on the show shoot me a message! =)
Thank you and hope you enjoy!
Kallen